Hmm no problems here to speak up. Question... You are logged in as root right? Here's another method to extract the deb archive:

ar vx /tmp/*.deb && tar -xzf /tmp/data.tar.gz

I've also updated the url in the how-to above so that it now points to the offical Debian repository. If for some reason, you find you still cant extract the contents of the deb file, reply here & I'll post a link to the stripped/converted font so you can down load it directly. In fact, hold on, will upload it now...

I should rephrase that post above:
Works (have not rebooted yet). Did not mean to imply that it did not
persist across reboots...
In fact it works so well if I was well versed in porting I'd port it or ask
someone else to...

Good deal. Thanks for the feedback jb, appreciate it immensely. Re: Porting...

You know, I have one official port (link here) & to be perfectly candid, building a port's infrastructure is not really all that hard (handbook helped allot). Now submitting a port for inclusion... well, is none too pleasant & not well documented enough IMO. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯